The Costumes Are Coming
Colleges are pilloried each October by conservative media for being overly concerned about students offended by Halloween costumes. But do those stories miss the hands-off approach colleges often take?
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Colleges are pilloried each October by conservative media for being overly concerned about students offended by Halloween costumes. But do those stories miss the hands-off approach colleges often take?
Junior academics are being “held back” in their careers as a consequence of more senior research partners being over-credited on co-authored papers, the results of a global study suggest.
The UK government is exploring the idea of offering access to public student loans for overseas students studying at British universities, as part of potential post-Brexit trade deals with foreign governments.
More than half of all research papers published by academics in France and Britain now have at least one international co-author. Share lags in U.S.
Ball State University staff and presidents of the 13 fraternities included in Ball State’s Interfraternity Council have agreed there will be no more social gatherings at fraternity houses or co-hosted events by fraternities that include alcohol, or otherwise, until after Jan. 31, 2018.
US university presidents who bar “controversial” speakers from campus are “inflaming the problem”, according to the leader of an institution that hosted alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Iona College has officially launched GaelVentures, the startup incubator space at the New Rochelle college’s Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Scholars feel pressure to remove their work from research-sharing platforms like Academia.edu and others, as publishers’ battle with ResearchGate rages on.
Anyone who has ever taught a university class knows some students say more than others.
About that peer-review crisis … There isn’t one, at least in terms of quantity, according to a new study of article submissions and reviews completed in the social sciences. But those who write many papers might not be reviewing their fair share.